Fugio, KG, Fatty, Silver

[OxShoeDrew]

Happy Weekend!

The last month I've been hunting for a foundation that runs a 300 year old farm. I've been finding lots of cool stuff but have to give up the goods.

Yesterday morning and this morning I finally got some Drew time in!
This was a public freakin park!!! I know it was pounded bc I've done much of the pounding.
The take,
1787 Fugio
Almost dated KG
1863 Fatty
1910 V
Silver ring
Silver ear ring with blue stone
Auxilery pin
Musket ball
Colonial cuff-links
Colonial buttons
Monopoly hat

Thanks!

[Digger_O'Dell]

Very cool finds Drew! Love that Fugio, and the ring is pretty unusual. Ckmgrsts on more good park pounding!

[Digger Don]

Wow, You should find some Drew time more often!!!!
Great bunch of finds. And from a park

[The Rebel]

WTG Drew those are some spectacular finds!

[Donnie B]

Great hunt! It's Drew time!

[Tony Two-Cent]

It's hard for me to imagine finding a Fugio in a public park! WOW! And a King George! DOUBLE WOW! And Colonial cufflinks! That is incredible!

It is also unusual to find a Fatty in a park because they ring up like pull tabs. At least they do on an E-Trac. Was it deep?

Wonderful finds, Drew!

[OxShoeDrew]

Thanks everyone!!! Tony, all that was found on a single slope. The strata seems to have been undisturbed there so I was digging everything below six inches.

[Lodge Scent]

Heck of a hunt there Drew. Your Equinox sniffed those goodies out that the T2 had missed?

[OxShoeDrew]

Thanks again, Fellas.
Jeff, to me, the difference between the nox and t2 is complicated. I bought the nox because I thought my T2 was under-performing on heavily mineralized fields. I thought the multi freq would get me deeper at those sites. As it turns out my T2 performs just as well as my Nox at those locations...which is nothing deeper than 6in. BUT, weirdly, my Nox out-performs my T2 in normal/quiet dirt...which is where I was this weekend. So to answer your question, I think my T2 would have missed some of these targets. BUT ( more buts) it just may be my minelab has to be swung slower when I move to a lower recovery speed so maybe I'm just going slower. Maybe as Roger said, it may simply be the recent rain. Who knows...I just swing and am lucky to live by nice sites.

[Digger_O'Dell]

Drew, if you've got heavily mineralized fields, have you thought to try a PI machine? The beaches in my area have areas so mineralized my CTX in auto mode has dropped as low as 4 sensitivity. That will give me terrible depth and even surface coins often wont make a peep. But I pull out a PI machine, its game on!

[BTV Digger]

Way to go Drew! Man, a Fugio at a public park - that's fantastic! Congrats on sniffing out the goods.

John

[Bucknut]

Fantastic finds! I'd love to find an early colonial coin like a Fugio. Congrats!

[Lodge Scent]

Thanks again, Fellas.
Jeff, to me, the difference between the nox and t2 is complicated. I bought the nox because I thought my T2 was under-performing on heavily mineralized fields. I thought the multi freq would get me deeper at those sites. As it turns out my T2 performs just as well as my Nox at those locations...which is nothing deeper than 6in. BUT, weirdly, my Nox out-performs my T2 in normal/quiet dirt...which is where I was this weekend. So to answer your question, I think my T2 would have missed some of these targets. BUT ( more buts) it just may be my minelab has to be swung slower when I move to a lower recovery speed so maybe I'm just going slower. Maybe as Roger said, it may simply be the recent rain. Who knows...I just swing and am lucky to live by nice sites.

The problem Drew is that we want it all in one machine but we can't have it all in one machine . It's unfortunate that the VLF platform has come up with many ways to deal with heavy mineralization, but all at the cost of depth. A PI will of course get you that depth, but you will likely need to hire someone to dig all those holes for you. And probably also need to hire someone to carry a big finds pouch for all the unwanted targets that the guy you hired to do the digging will be digging up. But just think of all the goodies that are still in those heavily mineralized fields just out of reach of our VLFs and just waiting to be dug up! I am tempted to buy a PI and hire a couple of day laborers.

[Ken C]

Great hunt! 1787 Fugio! Awesome!

[aloldstuff]

A Fugio....in a public park.... Love your statement "almost dated KG".... great hunting Drew.

[OxShoeDrew]

A Fugio....in a public park.... Love your statement "almost dated KG".... great hunting Drew.

Thanks everyone! I've almost dated many, Al! ..before I was married of course...which will be 33 yrs this week.

[Donnie B]

I love cuff links. Nice!

[Full Metal Digger]

How did I miss this post? Great assortment of finds Drew! That Fugio is a rare find and looks to be in decent enough shape. Seems like a lot of the early U.S. coins were dated 1787. Great post.

[calabash digger]

Some great finds !